Social media is where people often put a selective best on display. But #medtwitter - this is what I'm hearing behind the scenes.

I'm posting this thread so you know you're not alone, and you deserve better than this:

[1/🧵]
I'm reading comments on a registration form re: an upcoming session about nonclinical physician careers.

I asked why they were interested in attending.

They said:

[2/]
😕 Exhausted. All the time.
🙁 Work is more demanding without the same feeling of satisfaction
😕 I feel replaceable. Expendable.
🙁 Need better life-work balance. Have been...

[3/]
...so burned out for a long time now.
🙁 Tired of the grind, lack of autonomy.
🙁 I love medicine, but almost nothing I do is actually practicing medicine anymore
🙁 I want more flexibility, better quality of life.

[4/]
(Hey, these ones aren't bad...)
🙁 Not ready to retire but need a change
🙂 Want to learn new skills/use in a different way
🙂 Looking for more creativity, autonomy, leadership potential, less bureaucracy

[5/]
🙁 New culture/leadership - so much has changed in my department.
🙁 We are so undervalued.
😕 The joy is gone.
😕 We're scapegoat for broken healthcare system
😕 Doesn't seem like the environment will improve anytime soon

[6/]
🙁 Overwhelmed...no longer able to pursue the parts of my career which I enjoyed so much
🙁 Miss my family, they mean more than anything
🙁 Medicine is changing for the worse

These are quotes from real docs. It's heartbreaking. Maybe the most of all was

[7/]
"Sorry I let that all loose..."

To that, I say:

I'm sorry you are keeping all that bottled up, and living a life that sounds so depleted of joy and meaning that was once there.

And if you're feeling the same way, I'm just posting this so you know - you're not alone.

[8/]
If you're a program director or administrator, you already know this right?

If not, please go back to the top and read the words again.

Your doctors, nurses, clinicians - and frankly everyone - deserve better than this.

They've sacrificed. They've earned it.

[9/]
If this sounded like you, please know that you're not alone in feeling this way.

I hear you. I see you. I know it can be different.

You are NOT alone, and you deserve better than this.
Just had to write it, so you'd know.

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